DESIGN AND ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE FOR BUSINESS

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This course is to help students obtain in-depth understandings of organizations through good comprehension of central theoretical perspectives and paradigms. This course will focus on determinants of an organization's success, focusing particularly on structure and design issues, as well as external environmental factors that impact organizational structure and functioning. A systems theory approach will be taken, making links to the strategic management, power and control literatures, as well as different forms of organizing (rational to natural organizing). Finally, the effect of macro-level factors on individual decisions and behaviors, and thus organizational effectiveness, will examine from a multiple levels-of-analysis perspective.